The Thunderbird team is ready for day 1 of FOSDEM! Come visit us in Building F, level 1 to chat with the team, learn what we're up to with desktop, mobile, and Pro, and of course, grab stickers!
And don't forget Brendan's talk on Exchange in Thunderbird at noon today in the Modern Email Devroom (K.4.201)!
I read, you are going to develop LLMs into Thunderbird. Please don't forget that many of your users are very sensitive to privacy issues and have high ethical standards. Don't lose us.
Imagine if people you met in life embodied the audio characteristics found in popular music recordings of the time they were born.
My mom, born in the mid 50s, would have a constant slap-back delay on her voice that couldn't be turned off. Someone born a few years later would probably only be heard on either your left or right side, never both ears at once. I would probably be in a wash of reverb and chorus. Someone born in 1996 would have way too many highs and sound kind of brittle.
Someone born before 1925 would have a relatively limited frequency response, with the characteristics of acoustic recording.
It would be almost the inverse of going back in time and recording old voices with accents that don't exist anymore with modern, high-end equipment.
The matrix booth is crowded! Plenty of interesting questions and conversations.
If you want to try something new, we also have the famous sour Swedish sweets that our community member Magnus brings every year. Theyāre worth a try!
Habt ihr eine Idee, welche deutschsprachigen allg. Ć¼bergeordeten Begriffe man fĆ¼r #Messenger/ Chatsysteme benutzen kƶnnte?
Es geht um die Gestaltung eines Formulars, auf dem Personen ihr Handle/ Account/ ID o.Ƥ. fĆ¼r digitale Kommunikation angeben sollen, unter dem/ der sie erreichbar sind.
Die Abfrage nach der ID/Account fĆ¼r Messenger (dienste), unter der die Nutzer erreichbar sind, fĆ¼hrte zu totaler Ćberforderung. Sie konnten gar nichts mit den Begriffen Chat, Messenger, ID, Account oder Benutzername anfangen, hatten aber alle WA auf dem Phone und wussten nicht, dass ihre TelNr. die ID ihres genutzten Messengerdienstes ist ...
Im Prinzip wƤre das praktisch wohl so, als wĆ¼rde man z.B. einen Opel fahren und wĆ¼sste nicht, dass das ein Auto ist. š¶
I just discovered a silly thing. When I'm at home, and I open FindMy on my phone, all the devices show up as being at my address. When I do it here, though, it just says home. Trying to tell me something, Apple? Because if you are, I might be convinced to agree with you.
As much as I loathe LLM "AI" built from hoards of stolen data, machine learning "AI" has become terrifically useful.
This past week I had 10 audio recorders set out in the forest and nearby grassland, all recording non-stop from Monday afternoon to Friday morning. That was on our recent university field ecology field trip.
Today I downloaded all the files to a hard drive (156 GB of data) and then I set my little M1 Macbook Air to work, using the offline desktop BirdNet app to identify all of the birds in the recordings.
It took most of the day, and now I have a 42,284 row spreadsheet of birds detected.
It really feels like magic.
Here's a quick sorted lists of all the bird detections with species IDs with a confidence score >0.9.
Together with the students in the course, we'll laterl compare how birds have changed since we started doing this in 2020, and how the birds in the grassland differ from the forest.)
LLMs (combined with ASR models) are basically this but for text.
LLMs let you turn large and messy corpora of text, audio and images into a neat csv, which you can then analyze in any data science tool of choice. You can't just Excel your way through "how likely are right-wing newspapers to mention the race of a rapist, depending on what that race is." Not without a team of grad students doing the gruntwork at least. LLMs automate away all of that gruntwork, letting you answer research questions much faster.
You can't use pure Chat GPT for this, you need specialized tools.
Sure, LLMs hallucinate, just like human annotators do. This is why you (as a human) need to go through a sample of your corpus and figure out what your hallucination rate is. This is still much faster than annotating the entire corpus.
@miki Thanks. Yes, itās all the hoovering up of training data sets without permission by the big LLM products that I object to (plus the massive power consumption needed to build and refine the models). The tech behind the models is pretty neat.
At some point last evening, most of the lights off, I was coming up the stairs, and was meowing at the cat. The cat meowed back, and we were having "a conversation", as you do.
I became aware that the cat was in front of me, but the meowing was coming from further up the stairs.
That's when I realized the cat wasn't saying anything, but my wife and I were meowing at each other, each of us thinking the other was the cat.
Meanwhile, the cat was sitting between us, wondering what these two idiots were talking about.
News: Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Minneapolis' Hits #1 On iTunes Chart
Bruce Springsteen touched down in Minnesota on Friday and performed his protest song āStreets of Minneapolis,ā a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, hours after it soared to the top of iTunes.
We attend events where local volunteers can join ā so if you want to organise something, or attend something on behalf of the LibreOffice community, please let us know! š
WĆ¼rde ja gerne mal eine Gameshow machen, bei der man am Bahnsteig erraten muss, welche Mitwartenden gerade auf dem Weg zur gleichen Nerdveranstaltung sind wie du.
Die Engelbert-Strauss-Jacken machen eine nicht unerheblichen Anteil der Menschen im ICE 18 nach BrĆ¼ssel aus š
@Binder Wow! I've wanted something like this for the longest time. Thank you! Now, if I only could somehow get to work on my preservation of the original sound of monophonic telephone project...
dear #lazyweb: I have a metric butt-load of #photos that are entirely unorganized. total is about 166gb and probably close to 60k files? I lack the energy to sort them manually.
most have exif data. what are my options on Linux for sorting them? #shotwell seems to do dates. I considered #ente but I dunno if I want another subscription service. I don't care to share them with anybody.
Here is a video demo of the 7-string acoustic guitar I just received all the way from Ireland! Hope you enjoy the description and a bit of my playing! youtube.com/watch?v=481fgfR5jGā¦
I just received this wonderful X20 7-string acoustic guitar made by @emeraldguitars from Ireland.Since I was not able to find too many demos of this instrum...
mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich ein paar leere BeitrƤge in meiner TL habe. Scheinen nur BeitrƤge mit Bildern zu sein und betrifft nicht alle BeitrƤge mit Bild.
Fujisaki compensation still interests me though. Will explore that further. It just, made watery droplets. I wasn't applying it to the resonators right.
Want to find out how your battery is doing on your laptop? Windoes+r, type cmd and press enter. At the command line type: powercfg /batterystatus and press enter. An HTML report will be generated and you can view all the details there.
"She glides from the fashion fitting to the table setting, and from the ācandlelit dinnerā to the āstarlight ballā, with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal."
A face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal. Brilliant.
Why do people complain about curl|bash so much? Especially that the same people will often happily launch setup.exe when in front of a Windows computer.
curl|bash is not any less safe than E.G. `go install`, and it doesn't get nearly the same level of hate.
After spending half my day thinking about waveforms and reading through research papers during lunch, then spending the other half of it thinking about UI frontend and audits and accessibility, I'm about ready to call it quit and slip into the hot tub. Sorry y'all.
The Letter "R" is tuning slowly. Now it doesn't sound like the synthesizer is barking and words like "far" "bar" sound more natural, if a little squished on the R slightly. That will keep tuning itself over time, but it's not a disaster like it used to be haha
This is the first speech player for me I'm comfortable taking up to rate 70., which is about the same rate I do run Eloquence at. I'm not struggling to hear it as much as I used to at rate 70. Hmm. So that might not be a bad sign. But I'm just one ear. Well, two, one set of them.
I just imported a MIDI of Rush E into NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof and itā¦didn't go very well, or maybe it did considering. Anyway you be the judge, here's the audio of what playing it actually did. If anyone wants the resulting project file or the original MIDI, just let me know. I think there's a bit of this that @arfy would enjoy.
-/mondstern
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